Hi, ext James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 03:13:41 you wrote: >> ext James Sparenberg wrote: >>> On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:29:05 pm Marius Gedminas wrote: >>>> Two shell crashes on OS2008. One is reproducible but mostly >>>> harmless: >>>> >>>> $ type >>>> >>>> /bin/sh segfaults and your session ends. >>>> >>>> The other is not reproducible: while hitting the <Up> key to go >>>> back in history I suddenly got this: >>>> >>>> ~ $ pidof *** glibc detected *** -sh: double free or >>>> corruption (!prev): 0x0004ed40 *** >>>> >>>> /bin/sh aborts and your session ends. Scary. >>>> >>>> Marius Gedminas >>> Marius. I can't get the first one to crash mine. it instead >>> lists out the busybox info. As for the second ... I get random >>> crashes form the current xterm (less advanced) version that I >>> can't repeat. More often than not with more than one window open. >>> But the one you can get to work regularly doesn't seem to >>> happen. >>> >>> Also just curious but does anyone know why the clear command >>> wasn't compiled into busybox? Was up until 2008. Perhaps an >>> oversite? >> Why you need it? >> > > it is used in scripts to clear the term window when switching for > example in and out of VI. > > >> "clear" command comes from ncurses-bin package on Debian along with >> e.g. terminfo database manipulation programs. ncurses-bin is a >> Debian essential and "clear" is also in posix standard so it would >> probably be good if it would be in the device by default. > > Up until now clear was a compiled "applet" in busybox Not supplied by > ncurses-bin Unfortunately ... ncurses-bin is installed ... and it > doesn't have the command (in the maemo version) as in the past it > would have conflicted with the busy box version of clear. >> Busybox package doesn't provide ncurses-bin and from the binaries >> included into that package Busybox binary could be configured >> to provided only clear and reset. I'm not sure how nice it would >> be to have that limited ncurses-bin package in the device... >> The terminfo database tools shouldn't be necessary there. :-) > > Your right one package isn't expected to supply the another. But here > again. check OS2007 OS2006 and OS2005 busybox in all of them > supplied clear on maemo. If only clear and reset from the ncurses-bin package would be needed, busybox could include both and declared that it provides ncurses-bin. Does anybody know a package that would require the other binaries from ncurses-bin package: /usr/bin/tset /usr/bin/infocmp /usr/bin/tput /usr/bin/tack /usr/bin/tic /usr/bin/toe /usr/bin/infotocap /usr/bin/captoinfo ? Most of them are intended for maintaining the terminfo database entries, which I don't see as useful feature on maemo device. (all required/useful entries should be already on the device and if something is missing, that kind of a power user can just copy it from desktop) - Eero
